Changelog

This changelog lists all updates, improvements and new features our Engineering team develops for our Skyscrapers Reference Developer Platform. These are rolled out automatically to all DevOps-as-a-Service customers.

2023 Q3

2023-07-07 • Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks
2023-07-05 • Maintenance
Dedicated system node pool + reduced system component footprint
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks

2023 Q2

2023-06-22 • Maintenance
Upgrading K8s clusters to v1.26
#kubernetes #upgrade #eks #aks
2023-06-09 • Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.13.3
#vault #kubernetes
2023-06-09 • Maintenance
Upgrading OpenSearch clusters to 2.5
#upgrades #opensearch #elasticsearch #updates #database
2023-05-31 • Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 13.0.3
#upgrades #teleport #ssh #updates #tools
2023-05-30 • Maintenance
Post-mortem - A word on Pods stuck with ContainerCreating status problems
#kubernetes #eks #postmortem #kernel-bug
2023-05-25 • Maintenance
Upgraded fluent-bit and moving to built-in loki output
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks #fluent-bit
2023-05-11 • Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons for monitoring & logging
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks
2023-05-10 • Maintenance
[Action required] Update external-dns behavior for private Route53 zones
#kubernetes #k8s #external-dns #dns #route53 #aws #eks #action-required
2023-05-04 • Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks
2023-04-17 • Maintenance
Istio upgraded to version 1.16.4
#kubernetes #istio #service-mesh #upgrade #add-on #kiali
2023-04-11 • Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 12.2.1
#upgrades #teleport #ssh #updates #tools

2023 Q1

2023-03-31 • Maintenance
Defaulting to capacity-optimized for Spot nodepools
#eks #aws #spot
2023-03-30 • Maintenance
[Action required] Upgrades starting for K8s clusters to 1.25
#kubernetes #upgrade #eks #aks
2023-03-27 • Maintenance
Upgraded EKS cluster add-ons
#eks #aws #addons #coredns
2023-03-20 • Maintenance
Deletion prevention on OpenSearch S3 backups
#OpenSearch #backups #replication #disaster-recovery #snapshots
2023-03-16 • Maintenance
Istio upgraded to version 1.16.3
#kubernetes #istio #service-mesh #upgrade #add-on #kiali
2023-03-13 • Maintenance
Vault upgraded to 1.13.0
#vault #kubernetes
2023-03-01 • Maintenance
INFO - Empty response for external.metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1 errors with kubectl and helm
#kubernetes #helm #keda #kubectl
2023-02-28 • Maintenance
Post Mortem - Loki log loss
#add-on #kubernetes #loki #logs #grafana #aks #eks
2023-02-24 • Maintenance
Upgraded Teleport to version 12.0.2
#upgrades #teleport #ssh #updates #tools
2023-02-20 • Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #aks #eks
2023-02-13 • Maintenance
Improving Loki performance & scalability
#add-on #kubernetes #improvements #loki #logs #performance #grafana #aks #eks
2023-02-03 • Maintenance
Node Termination Handler Slack notifications disabled by default (AWS EKS)
#kubernetes #nth #eks